'Değmesin Yağlıboya'

This is a warning: A child who has not yet chosen his toy should not be made to wear a wedding dress. A life whose painting has not yet been completed should not be given the role of “woman”. Oil painting should not touch it, because this painting belongs to childhood. It defends that a girl who reaches for a brush for the first time has the right to draw her own life. But society takes the brush from her hands and forces her destiny onto a canvas where others will draw it. “It is a boy, it takes.” “It is a girl, it is given.” These words are not brush strokes, they are stains. This painting is the color of silent screams. It is the mirror of the oppression that touches a body that has not yet grown up, the culture that buries childhood with weddings. We say: Children should not be silent, nor should this painting remain incomplete. Give them the brush. Let them paint their own stories. And please… let oil painting not touch it.